REBECCA HART, Preston, Conn., eldest daughter and child of Rev. Levi Hart, of that place, and his wife, Rebecca (Bellamy); married          Rev. Amos Chase, of Litchfield, South Farms. She died February 25th, 1791, leaving no children. After her death he married Anna, sister of Judge James Lanman, Norwich, and removed to Western Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM SHERMAN HART, Norwich, Conn., eldest son of Rev. Levi Hart, of Preston, and his wife, Rebecca (Bellamy), born 1767, in Preston; married Eunice Backus, of Norwich, Conn. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1786. He was a lawyer. He studied his profession at Litchfield, under Judge Reeve, and became a practicing attorney at Norwich, Conn.

994. William Backus, born         ; married

ALICE COGSWELL HART, Norwich, Conn., second daughter of Rev. Levi Hart, of Preston, Conn., and his wife, Rebecca (Bellamy), born August 23d, 1772, at Preston; married November 27th, 1794, Calvin Goddard, of Norwich, Conn. She died May 3d, 1832, aged 60 years, in the lively faith of a Christian. Her distinguished husband thus speaks of her: "My connection with this family," (Rev. Dr. Hart's,) adds Judge Goddard, "has furnished me with a great proportion of my happiness during a long life; and as well from a knowledge of her Christian life, as from the circum- stances of her triumphant death, I can not doubt she was removed to a mansion 'not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' Our severe loss has been her gain. My children, under God, owe much of what they are to their dear mother, and I trust the influence of her character is not yet lost upon my grandchildren."

Judge Goddard died May 2d, 1842. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1786, in the class with his brother- in-law, William Sherman Hart. He was one of the most distinguished civilians in Connecticut, being judge of the Superior Court, assistant, &c. His attention was called, among the first, to the moral bearing of lotteries, and, after